January/February 2014

How is science actually done today and what is its role in social change? Can a student divestment campaign curb the tarsands? How are tenants organizing for better housing? What is the G8’s plan for African farmers? How does unemployment shape self-worth? What’s ahead for northern Saskatchewan’s wild rice harvesters? This issue tackles these questions and more!

In the midst of the Harper government’s war on science, we must reconsider how science is done today, how it might it be done in a better society, and what its role is in the struggle for a just and sustainable world.

Through strategic organizing, tenants can win increased legal protections from eviction, funding for new social housing, and, eventually, the full control of their own homes. In concert with other movements, these efforts can help build the organizing skills and collective power that are necessary to challenge a political and economic system that privileges property and those who own it above all else.

It’s been three decades since Canadian legislators replaced the word “rape” with “sexual assault.” Against a backdrop of persistent sexual violence, changes in language reveal how much work is yet to be done.